Mabel L. Kidwell

August 03, 1985

Services for Mabel L. Kidwell, 90, who formerly worked with her husband in a South Side florist business, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the chapel at 1035 N. Dearborn St. Mrs. Kidwell, a former South Side resident who most recently lived in a Near North Side nursing home, died Thursday in South Chicago Community Hospital. Before her husband, Richard, died in 1951, they operated William Kidwell & Son florist shops, which had been founded by his father in the 1880s in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side. She is survived by a son, William; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.